Data Catalog API methods that are related to Data Catalog search and metadata are deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. See Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Universal Catalog. Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.
Returns the caller's permissions on a resource. If the resource does not exist, an empty set of permissions is returned (We don't return a NOT_FOUND error).
Supported resources are: - Tag templates. - Entries. - Entry groups. Note, this method cannot be used to manage policies for BigQuery, Pub/Sub and any external Google Cloud Platform resources synced to Data Catalog.
A caller is not required to have Google IAM permission to make this request.
HTTP request
POST https://datacatalog.googleapis.com/v1beta1/{resource}:testIamPermissions
Path parameters
Parameters
resource
string
REQUIRED: The resource for which the policy detail is being requested. See Resource names for the appropriate value for this field. It takes the form projects/{project}/locations/{location}/entryGroups/{entrygroup}.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"permissions": [string]}
Fields
permissions[]
string
The set of permissions to check for the resource. Permissions with wildcards (such as * or storage.*) are not allowed. For more information see IAM Overview.
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